Article
Sickle cell anemia, sickle cell beta-thalassemia, and thalassemia major in Albania: characterization of mutations.
Human genetics - 1 Feb 1994
Boletini E, Svobodova M, Divoky V, Baysal E, Cürük M A, Dimovski A J, Liang R, Adekile A D, Huisman T H
Abstract excerpt
We have analyzed the hemoglobin abnormalities in nearly 50 Albanian patients with a significant hemoglobinopathy and included 37 relatives in this study. Sickle cell anemia (SS) is a common disorder; all 15 sickle cell anemia patients had the complications expected for this disease. The beta S ha...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Albania
- Alleles
- Anemia, Sickle Cell
- DNA Mutational Analysis
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Male
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mutation
- Oligonucleotide Probes
- beta-Thalassemia
